Iwan Babij

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Ivan Babij (born March 5, 1893 in the village of Dobromirka, died July 25, 1934 in Lwów) was a Ukrainian educator from Eastern Galicia, captain of the Ukrainian Galician Army, principal of a Ukrainian high school in Lwów, and activist of the Ukrainian Catholic Action.

Babij graduated from a high school in Tarnopol, then studied classical philology at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów. Later, he was a principal of a high school in Brzeżany, then, in 1931, took the post of principal of a Ukrainian high school in Lwów. Babij openly criticized the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, which resulted in death sentence, passed by the Revolutionary Tribunal of the OUN. He was murdered by OUN's activist Mikolaj Car.

Sources

Andrzej Chojnowski, Jan Bruski - "Ukraina", Warszawa 2006, ISBN 978-83-7436-039-5

Persondata
Name	Kruscelnytska, Salomea
Alternative names
Short description	Educator
Date of birth	March 5, 1893
Place of birth	Dobromirka, Ukraine
Date of death	July 25, 1934
Place of death	Lwów, Ukraine

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